Also, a combination of natural disasters and man made disasters could throw our nation into desperate times.  Should we not be ready for such an eventuality?  Are you among the many whom God is leading in this way?

 

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to see maps showing the location of five "Green islands of survival," North West Arkansas being one of them.  The maps are big, so the screen will take a few seconds to come up.

 

Here is the story behind this map:  A friend of mine gave me a copy of this map close to 20 years ago.  A friend of his says five prophetic men (who did not know each other and had never met) where directed by the Holy Spirit to meet with each other at a hotel in Chicago.  After they arrived and discerned who the others were, they rented a room and began to discuss the things the Holy Spirit had directed them to share with each other. 

One of the things they discussed was divinely protected areas where Christians would go to not just survive when national disaster struck, but to save a lot of lives and to minister Christ to the refugees that would gather there at that time. 

They turned to the page on an Atlas map that shows the continental United States and each in turn drew a circle around an area the Holy Spirit had shown them to be a protected area. 

Keep in mind that this does not mean there are not more divinely protected areas in the USA, or that these circled areas are entirely accurate.  I can only attest to the one area I personally was shown, and that is the North West corner of Arkansas, an area much smaller that the area shown on the map.  The Holy Spirit called this divinely protected area "A Green Island of Survival."

Intentional Neighbors

This self sufficient community will be a village of "intentional neighbors" where everyone owns their own home and controls their own affairs.  The common purse concept will be absent, but common purpose and mutual service will be our way of life. 

Our purpose will be to go into the highways and byways to minister Jesus Christ to all we find.  Our service will be to meet all the needs within our community by serving each other.  There will be a diversity of ministries, professions, skills and crafts present. 

Self Sufficiency

We anticipate that we will need our own utilities, food source, housing, and everything else needed to sustain a healthy life style.  Why?  Because we anticipate that the economy will collapse to such a degree that only those who are ready for such a time with a totally self sufficient community (reminiscent of the Amish life style) will be able to not only survive, but be able to take in refugees and meet their physical and spiritual needs. 

We each will give of our services without charge.  All of us  will obligate ourselves to do our part to serve as unto Christ (Mat. 25:31-46).  That means that the farmers grow the food for all, the mechanics keep all the machinery operational, the doctors treat all the community, etc.  Money to finance every aspect of the community will come from people within and outside of the community who will operate business throughout the world.

How This Community Differs From Most

Most Christian communities function as a family that meets the needs of the family, has their own church on their property, and has one strong leader, and practices common purse economics.  They always have a business that supports the community family members.  They are susceptible to becoming an ingrown cultish group.

This is the vision behind the ministry name of ArkHaven.

 

What ArkHaven Is Not

 

ArkHaven is not a paramilitary armed camp of survivalists or a bunch of secluded, hiding pacifists.  Our protection will be divine or none at all.  Our prayer warriors will keep up a prayer hedge about us at all times.  The camp that is armed is depending on their own numbers, training, and equipment...the arm of the flesh.  But there is always some group out there that can outgun you.  It is God's way to offer a vision of long term provision and peace to a militant band of potential raiders as opposed to a bloody shoot out at OK Corral. 

ArkHaven is not Amish or Mennonite in its theology, even though their self sufficiency and community concepts will be very evident on the ArkHaven campus.  I like to point out that if you had asked an Amish farmer how he was faring the depression back in the 20's he would have asked, "What depression."  Someone within the community makes or grows everything needed within the community.  They are survivors, not survivalists. 

Survivalists (as a general rule) horde food and supplies and arm themselves to protect their stuff.  Survivors are able to peacefully bring themselves and others through good and bad times by growing and making everything they need on their own property.  They know how to be totally self sufficient while at the same time be totally dependant on God to lead and protect them.

ArkHaven will run much like a YWAM camp.  (That is an acronym for Youth With A Mission.)  By that I mean we will train our people to minister on campus so that we can better reach out into the surrounding community to serve.  And like YWAM, not have a campus church that we expect our community to attend, but prefer to have our people go to churches of their choice in the nearby communities.  It is our hope that we can have a YWAM campus right inside our community.

Youth With A Mission is an international movement of Christians from many denominations dedicated to serving Jesus throughout the world. Also known as YWAM (pronounced "WYE-wam"), their calling is to know God and to make Him known. Back when they began in 1960, their main focus was to get youth into short-term mission work and to give them opportunities to reach out in Jesus' name. Today, they still focus on youth, and they also involve people of almost every age (even many people who choose to spend their "retirement" in active service). Their many ministries fit into three main categories: evangelism, training and mercy ministry. They are currently operating in more than 1000 locations in over 149 countries, with a staff of nearly 16,000.

 

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ArkHaven is a reference to the Ark of the Covenant and to Noah's Ark. 

Both of these Arks were places of God's promise, protection, and provision.  The ultimate and future goal of ArkHaven Ministries is to form a Christian community—a haven for end-time ministry purposes.  

The original name was Ark-ten, but God allowed me to change it to a more understandable name—ArkHaven.  When the Lord first told me the name I mistakenly assumed that "ark" was an abbreviation for Arkansas, and that "ten" was a  colloquialisms for "town," or Arkansas Town.

But the Holy Spirit quickly corrected me.  He said that this community is an "Ark" as in Noah's Ark and the Ark of the covenant, and that "ten" is the number 10.  I had to look up the number 10 in Bible symbolism to see what it means.  Ten implies completeness of order, nothing lacking and nothing over. It signifies that the cycle is complete and that everything is in its proper order. Thus ten represents the perfection of divine order.

When we combine the two words (ark + 10) we get this definition: God's place of provision protection and promise, nothing lacking, until completeness of order is seen.

Kenneth Uptegrove is the founder and director of ArkHaven Ministries.

 

My testimony as to why we moved to north-west Arkansas from Illinois in 1985 is so unusual and so miraculous that you may have a hard time believing it.  

If you believe that God has moved you to North West Arkansas as well, our testimonies may confirm to each other that God did indeed move us here.

In 1982 the Lord began telling me to move my family to north-west Arkansas to start my end-time ministry.  He said He was opening the doors for me to become established there.  He told me this area was "a green island of survival,"  and He called the community concept "a community of intentional neighbors."

At the time I was a civilian employee at Scott Air Force base in Belleville, Illinois, serving as a computer programmer.  Our testimony of how God moved my family here from Belleville, IL is as inspiring as they get.  God put together a series of events that made the move come together in minute and miraculous detail. 

Here is our testimony.

On one of my trips to Arkansas in 1983 I felt led to stop at a real estate office.  I asked the agent if there was a small natural and organic farm for sale.  She told me all about a four acre Blueberry farm, but the information was useless to me at the time.  I felt foolish as I walked out of that office.

Then I felt led to go to Green Forest, Arkansas to see if a friend of mine still lived there.  He was a Chiropractor I knew back when we all went to church together in St. Louis years before.  Well, I found his clinic, and he invited me to spend the night so we could talk.  Over dinner I told him about the natural and organic Blueberry farm in Springdale that was for sale.  It turns out that he knew all about that farm.  The owners traded Blueberries for Chiropractic treatment, and they were Christians.  The next day I went to visit that farm, but this was just a far-fetched dream at the time. 

The only government job I could transfer to in my profession was at the Veteran’s Hospital in Fayetteville, so I filled out a job application there and went home.  A year later the Veterans Hospital in Fayetteville asked me to come for a job interview.  The interview went well, and before I could get home they had already called ahead and said I was accepted. 

I called the Blueberry farm to find that the owners had moved to Georgia and left a young couple to run the farm.  So I called the owner in Georgia.  He was glad to hear from me because the young couple had also accepted a new job, but in Kansas City. And his reporting date was August the 5th.  My reporting date at the VA Hospital was—you guessed it—on August the 5th as well.  For this reason I am convinced that God did in deed move us here. 

 

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